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Provides information on family violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, and elder abuse, including information on preventing and responding to family violence.
"Family violence" is a term that includes the many different forms of abuse, mistreatment or neglect that adults or children may experience in their intimate, kinship or dependent relationships.
Source: Department of Justice Canada
A national resource centre for all Canadians seeking information and solutions to violence within the family. Professionals, other front-line workers, researchers and community groups need to know what their colleagues and counterparts are doing across the country.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
This paper is written for lesbians who have been in abusive relationships, for friends and families, for lesbian organizations, and for those who work in the area of violence against women.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
This booklet is for immigrant women who are suffering from abuse in a relationship or in a family. If you know someone who is abused, give her this booklet. Ask her if she wants help. She may need your support. Tell her she is not alone.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
A listing of services and programs that address the needs of older adult victims of violence in Canada. In this edition, 280 programs and services are listed by province, from the east to west coast and within each province and territory, alphabetically by town or city.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
In this fact sheet, 'abuse of older adults' refers to violence, mistreatment or neglect that older adults living in either private residences or institutions may experience at the hands of their spouses, children, other family members, caregivers, service providers or other individuals in situations of power or trust.
Source: Department of Justice Canada
Child abuse, as defined by Canadian law, is the violence, mistreatment or neglect that a child or adolescent may experience while in the care of someone they trust or depend on, such as a parent, sibling, relative, caregiver, or guardian.
Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The term child abuse refers to the violence, mistreatment or neglect that a child or adolescent may experience while in the care of someone they either trust or depend on, such as a parent, sibling, other relative, caregiver or guardian.
Source: Department of Justice Canada
Domestic violence is abuse between married or common-law partners. The abuse can be verbal, emotional, sexual, or physical. It can also be a combination of a number of these forms.
Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Abuse of seniors occurs more often than reported. Why? What are the signs of abuse and who are the abusers? How can it be prevented? What help is available?
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
The document is about intimate partner abuse against men in heterosexual relationships – both marital and common-law; it does not deal with intimate partner abuse in same-sex relationships.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
While there is no universally accepted definition of senior abuse, the Toronto Police Service defines it as harm to someone over the age of 65 by someone in a position of trust or authority.
Source: Women's Health Matters
"Spousal abuse" refers to the violence or mistreatment that a woman or a man may experience at the hands of a marital, common-law or same-sex partner.
Source: Department of Justice Canada
Health Canada's activities through the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence focus on synthesizing and disseminating best practices to prevent and treat family violence, including violence against women.
Source: Health Canada
All women are at risk of experiencing acts of violence, and women are more likely to be assaulted by someone they know
Source: Canadian Health Network
This booklet addresses some of the most common questions and concerns of adult male survivors of sexual abuse. It includes information about how to recognize sexual abuse, how to get help, what to expect from counselling, and how to tell a partner.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
The Invisible Boy is intended for a wide readership. It is a "snapshot in time" of some of the controversies, challenges, knowledge gaps and unexplored issues pertaining to the male experience of victimization.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
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